I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago. Swift.
Procrastination is the thief of time. Young.
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If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton.
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By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach. Robynson (More's Utopia) .
Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall. Shak.
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The famous Briton prince and faery knight, . . . Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode. Spenser.
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What unaccustomed cause procures her hither? Shak.
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They think it done By her procurement. Dryden.
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In fighting fields [patriots] were prodigal of blood. Dryden.
Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.
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It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky. Sir T. Browne.
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So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign. Milton.
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Produce your cause, saith the Lord. Isa. xli. 21.
Your parents did not produce you much into the world. Swift.
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This soil produces all sorts of palm trees. Sandys.
[They] produce prodigious births of body or mind. Milton.
The greatest jurist his country had produced. Macaulay.
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There are the product Of those ill-mated marriages. Milton.
These institutions are the products of enthusiasm. Burke.
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He that doth much . . . products his mortality. Hackett.
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And kindle with thy own productive fire. Dryden.
This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. Spectator.
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Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
Thus much may serve by way of proem. Swift.
Master page, good master page, sit. Proface! Shak.
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'T were profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Donne.
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The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine. Gibbon.
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Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things. Sir W. Raleigh.
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The priests in the temple profane the sabbath. Matt. xii. 5.
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So idly to profane the precious time. Shak.
The character of God profanely impeached. Dr. T. Dwight.
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The brisk interchange of profanity and folly. Buckminster.
The threefold distinction of profectitious, adventitious, and professional was ascertained. Gibbon.
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The best and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. Milton.
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I do profess to be no less than I seem. Shak.
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A solemn vow, promise, and profession. Bk. of Com. Prayer.
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The Indians quickly perceive the coincidence or the contradiction between professions and conduct. J. Morse.
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Hi tried five or six professions in turn. Macaulay.
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I reck not what wrong that thou me profre. Chaucer.
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He made a proffer to lay down his commission. Clarendon.
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Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. Rambler.
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This I speak for your own profit. 1 Cor. vii. 35.
If you dare do yourself a profit and a right. Shak.
The word preached did not profit them. Heb. iv. 2.
It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs. Dryden.
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I profit not by thy talk. Shak.
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Riches profit not in the day of wrath. Prov. xi. 4.
What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. Arbuthnot.--
That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Tim. iv. 15.
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The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras.
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A race more profligate than we. Roscommon.
Made prostitute and profligate muse. Dryden.
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Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt. Milman.
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What humble gestures! What profound reverence! Dupp
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God in the fathomless profound Hath all this choice commanders drowned. Sandys.
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Why sigh you so profoundly? Shak.
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A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. Milton.
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Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury.
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Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles? Rowe.
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A perfect artist in progging for money. Fuller.
I have been endeavoring to prog for you. Burke.
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So long as he picked from the filth his prog. R. Browning.
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And reverence thee their great progenitor. Milton.
Their countenances had the true prognathous character. Kane.
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That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import. Macaulay.
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I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden.
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The king being returned from his progresse. Evelyn.<-- sic. -->
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Let me wipe off this honorable dew, That silverly doth progress on thy checks. Shak.
They progress in that style in proportion as their pieces are treated with contempt. Washington.
The war had progressed for some time. Marshall.
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If man progresses, art must progress too. Caird.
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I hope, in a short progression, you will be wholly immerged in the delices and joys of religion. Evelyn.
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Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress. Milton.
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The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions. Tillotson.
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The sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leafy arms. Chapman.
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Vented much policy, and projects deep. Milton.
Projects of happiness devised by human reason. Rogers.
He entered into the project with his customary ardor. Prescott.
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Before his feet herself she did project. Spenser.
Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide. Pope.
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What sit then projecting peace and war? Milton.
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